Just two years after oil fracking was formally banned in California, and five years after fracking approvals ended, Kern ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An offshore oil platform is seen in the Santa Barbara Channel, with Santa Cruz Island in the background. (UCG/UCG/Universal Images ...

Kern County Superior Court Judge Bernard C. Barmann Jr.’s preliminary decision comes two years after California formally ...

A new report on hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in California warns of the risks of irreversible contamination of surface and groundwater near oil drilling sites, unless the technique is carefully ...

California oil and gas regulators have formally released their plan to phase out fracking three years after essentially halting new permits for the practice. The California Geologic Energy Management ...

As hundreds of California oil and gas wells undergo dangerous hydraulic fracturing without government oversight, environmental advocates went to court today to force the agency responsible for ...

The California Senate declined to pass SB 1132, a bill that would have imposed a statewide ban on energy production using hydraulic fracturing methods. The vote marked the second time in two years ...

California regulators have released official plans for phasing out fracking in the Golden State — nearly three years after Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) declared his intentions to do so. The proposed ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— California’s oil and gas regulator submitted its final regulations banning hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to the state’s Office of Administrative Law on Monday. This is the ...

California’s Geologic Energy Management Division is in the midst of finalizing regulations to ban fracking across the state, which will officially go into effect on October 1. The department submitted ...

A Southern California oil company is trying to launch the state's first new offshore fracking project in over a decade, potentially paving the way for more of the controversial extraction work along ...